The third filmed adaptation of Dune is coming out next month and my entire timeline is obsessed, and meanwhile the first-ever filmed adaptation of Asimov's Foundation is coming out this month and I bet you had zero idea before this tweet and still don't care.
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Replying to @DavidKlion
<Whispers> Both are going to be profound disappointments, and are based on source material that is underwhelming by current standards. <throws smoke grenade, runs away>
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Replying to @davekarpf
You take that back, re Dune but not Foundation, where you're obviously correct
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Replying to @DavidKlion
I finally read Dune last year. It’s… I mean… do the later books get better?
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Replying to @davekarpf @DavidKlion
This is the correct take. Dune is an important book with a lot of interesting stuff in it, but also it's a fucking disaster.
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Dune is one of those books that proves good writing doesn't matter. Like a lot of Philip K. Dick.
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Replying to @kevin_modestino @HeerJeet and
Oh, this is not a defense of Foundation, a book I have no recollection of beyond "huh, that was a thing I read. They were....merchant princes at some point? And...harpoons? IDK."
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